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Guillermo Graniela

Case from New York City, NY dated Aug 29, 1981

Victim Details

Guillermo Graniela

Male

Hispanic / Latino

New York City

NY

1981-08-29

30

Guillermo

Graniela

08/02/2026

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Guillermo Graniela was a 30-year-old man described as Hispanic/Latino who was found dead on August 29, 1981, in New York City, in the basement of a Bronx building at 417 Bronx Park Avenue. The scene was brutally deliberate: his hands and feet were bound with rope, and another rope was fixed around his neck. Investigators would later describe a crude, vicious tightening device—an ordinary screwdriver jammed into the knot—used as a lever to twist the rope down until breathing stopped.

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